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With their own version of a bill to gut obamacare. Whats the next move from President Trump and from the democrats . Plus, womens marches coast to coast calling for equality and many taking a stand against the new white house. Well have live coverage. Yes, demanding proof and its just not one party, now both republicans and democrats are demanding information, proof on President Trumps stunning claim that former president Obama Wiretapped him. The drum beat on capitol hill increasing. And just a short time ago, Senate Judiciary Committee Members senators graham and whitehouse firing off a letter to fbi director james comey requesting the kdepartment of justice provide copies of warrants, applications and court orders related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign or trump tower. And republicans on the house Judiciary Committee also calling on fbi director comey to investigate President Trumps wiretapping claim. So what if the department of justice and the fbi flatout refuse to answer . Our kasie hunt asked senator graham today. Reporter would you subpoena this information if you dont get it . Theres no reason for them not to give it to us, all were asking for is the warrant issued and if they dont give it to us, yes, ill subpoena it. Im not trying to compromise classified information. Not trying to compromise an investigation. The question is, has it ever been a warrant issued . This is a major deal for the country. I want to get to the bottom of it. Senate intelligence Committee Members went to cia headquarters today to look at the raw russia data. Kasie caught up with the vase chairman of the committee. Just came back from the cia, where there were four senators, we got a chance to look at some of the raw intel product. In many ways, we got even more questions now. Weve got more information weve got to get access to. I know as the committee gets into this next stage of listing who we want to have conversations with, but main thing is that, you know, were all committed, democrats and republicans there today to keeping this bipartisan. The American People deserve to hear all of the facts. With me, senator angus king, independent of maine, who serves on the senate Intelligence Committee. Good evening, sir. Hello, greta, how are you . Im very well. So, senator warner who went over to langley, cia, which i understand you were just over there, yourself, said after going over and looking at information, he has more questions. Do you have more questions after your trip to langley today . Well, i do have more questions but i also have more answer. I was there for most of the afternoon. Marco rubio and i were both there and i think its important that people realize that this is a bipartisan investigation and it has nothing to do with party. Were just trying to get to the facts. Yeah, there are certainly questions to be answered but, you know, one of the one of the factors here, which i think is really well established, is that the russians did interfere in our election in 2016. They intended to do so. The orders came from the very top and i think thats clearly established. The documents i saw today confirm whats already been released in a nonclassified manner. So so i think were very far along on that aspect of it. The other piece, greta, that hasnt gotten as much attention that i think is really important, was that there were russian attempts to get into state voting system. Registration rolls. Voting machines. Things like that. All the indications are it didnt work, that they werent successful, but they werent doing it for fun. And what worries me is they were practicing, they were probing, they were looking for vulnerabilities and im worried about the next couple of elections coming and what mischief they could be up to on that front which would really be a catastrophe. Imagine this election if we had found out a couple days later that voting tallies had been changed in one or the other of the states. It would have really been a blow to our democratic process. All right. Wou with some of the states so close like pennsylvania as one of them, it actually seems to me important, whether we knew of the russian meddling in our election, when we knew it. Did we know it last fall . Last summer . And what efforts were taken . Because, you know, that makes a difference to me or did we just learn recently . Did we just figure it out recently . No, there was a report, because it came out in sort of the middle of the campaign, it didnt get as much play, but october 7th, the Intelligence Community, the leaders of the Intelligence Community, issued a report which said the russians are trying to interfere with our elections, we know that theyre trying to get into our state election systems. That was in october. And what we need to learn from that is how do we protect the state election system, things like dont attach Voting Machines to the internet, always have paper backup for your ballots and those kinds of things but this is something we really need to be aware of, and of course, the good news is that they couldnt get in. The bad news is that our system is very decentralized and that helped them it helped to keep us safe, but weve got to have the states really have their guard up. All right. In the beginning, i think if am iorrect, sir, you said the ssians did interfere, so naturally im focusing on whether, you know, the integrity of the election was compromised with those very close states. Can you say categorically, can the cia say categorically that they have had no impact on the states that were so laser close, for instance, like pennsylvania . I can say now that you know, categorically, now, forever and always, but theres no indication at this point that they had any effect on vote tallies or Election Results in that sense. In the sense of messing around with Voting Machines or registration rolls. But what bothers me is, what worries me is, they tried or at least tried to figure out how they could do it and so im worried about worri worried about 2018, 2020, 2022. Lindsey graham sent a letter over to justice, to the fbi. They want all the information of any possible wiretaps by the administration of President Trump, his campaign or trump tower. Whats your thought about this . I think theyre doing exactly the right thing. It doesnt surprise me. Those are two senators who work well together on a bipartisan basis. I think our committee, the Intelligence Committee, is going to be looking into the same subject, but, you know, one way to verify this is for the president of the United States whos in charge of the entire executive branch to pick up the phone and call the fbi and say were there wiretaps at trump tower . That would be a short way to get the answers to these questions. Ive heard that, but then it occurred to me that when first of all, i dont think hed get an answer i dont know if hed get an answer in a criminal investigation, but when Reince Priebus tried to correct the record on a New York Times story that the fbi tipped him off was a story that yuused the term, bs on, we in the media jumped them that theyre trying to interfere with criminal investigations. I would actually if the president said to me, should i call the fbi and see whats up, id say you better leave that alone, let the fbi do its job. Well, and of course, if he called and the fbi said we cant discuss that, that would indicate that there was an investigation, but i think this is something we can look into. Its fairly easily verifiable whether the fbi was involved and it may be that there was some investigation that didnt involve mr. Trump, himself, but involved servers somewhere in the organization and i dont know about that. But i think it is something we should get to the bottom of but i do feel if the president is going to make a charge like that, he should put forward some evidence other than a story in a newspaper or a talk show host. Not just say people are saying the president bugged me. I think he owes the American People some further explanation and evidence. In any case, well get to the bottom of it here, im quite sure. You know the problem is, i trust wanting to get to the bottom of it. The Intelligence Committee, so much is done behind closed doors and with the temperature thin ts country right now, i dont think people are going to be happy with things done behind closed doors. Would not an independent commission, perhaps, be wiser . Just because theyre more likely to do it in open, can see more of the classified stuff. The American People right now are the temperature is up pretty high in terms of being poisoned and paised. Biased. I completely agree with you. Theres no rule that says the Intelligence Committee has to work behind closed doors. We do have public hearings. I think our first set of hearings should be open. I think we should have as much of our work as possible that doesnt compromise intelligence the mechanics of how we gain the information should be public. I absolutely agree. The problem with an independent commission, we may end up going there, is theyd have to start all over with clearances, who would be on it, how would they be appointed . You know, does the president get an appointment, the two parties . Would be six or eight months for them to get where we are now. And my view is were going to do everything we can to get to the bottom of it, to get all the facts to be straightforward, to follow the facts where they lead. If they doesnt work, if i sense that this is turning into either a witch hunt or a whitewash, im out and im going to say so publicly that this the Intelligence Committee isnt working. I dont believe thats going to be the case. So far, bipartisan, lots of good, strong members on the committee and i think were going to be able to do the work the American People trust us to do as openly, not behind closed doors, openly as absolutely possible while not compromising security. Thanks for being with us, sir. Thank you, greta, glad to be with you. This coming as fbi director comey making his first public speech since the president took to twitter accusing the former president of wiretapping him. Director comey carefully avoiding any mention of wiretapping. You can ask me about anything, im very slippery, ill avoid talking about things i dont want to talk about. He avoided talking about it today, can he a i vovoid it 12 from now . The first public hearing of the russian hack of our election. Guess who was invited to testify . Yep, you guessed right. Fbi director james comey. Hes not the only one. Nsa director mike rogers. Former ci ax direa director joh brennan. James clapper. General sally yates. What might we find out then . Matthew miller is former department of justice spokesperson under eric mold e. And david priest, author of th the president s book of secrets. Matt, first to you, what can we learn at this hearing . Think anyones going to talk, first of all . I think so. I think director comey will be reluctant to talk about the facts of the underlying investigation. I think the questions about what the russians did, we know some of that from the Intelligence Community report that was released in january. I think well see more. I think well also see jim comey asked obviously is it true that the fbi illegally wiretapped, el l illegally is the important part, illegally wiretapped donald trump during the came papaign . If they havent done it by march 20th, when comey steps to the mike in that hearing, i suspect hell come out and defend the integrity of the fibl abi and t prosecutors who the president accused of breaking the law. David, if you were kdesignin the questions, draft the questions, youve been inside the cia, what would you ask of whom . Im fascinating by the senators comments about the open and closed hearings because its very hard to just say everything should be open except for the sensitive intelligence. Well, thats the whole nature of a closed hearing. The questions that need to get at the core of this may start in closed hearings, but theyll end up open one way or another. What would you ask of whom . I would want to find out what the Intelligence Community knew and when. And what they did about it at the time in terms of informing customers because you have to remember, theres the whole executive branch process through the president s daily brief and other sensitive intelligence that does not nesz lynecessaril the Intelligence Committees as such. That information can be made available to the Intelligence Committees through briefings and other materials. When were those products given . How were they given . What was known when . And how is it communicated to senior officials . Those are all crucial questions. Matt, are we going to learn anything at these hearings, do you think . Are we really going to learn anything . I think so. I dont think well learn much at all about the question of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russian intelligence. Just, i keep saying this because it was the dni clapper said it on meet the press and, you know, i hope hell come and talk to us, give us more information. He said there was no evidence of collusion. Which, you know, would have been, to me, would have been what i would have run with if i were the trump white house. Yes. Its one thing for clapper to say that, up to january 20th, the last day he was in office. The campaigns over at that point. Right. Its a different thing for the fbi director who is still apparently investigating that question. I dont think hell talk about that given that they still have an open and active investigation. One thing i think democrats will really be interested in asking, though, is not just about the underlying investigation but how the white house is responding to this investigation. You know, weve seen questions about Reince Priebus talking to director comey, talking to the Deputy Director of the fbi about that story. See, maybe i dont have all the facts but im somewhat sympathetic to Reince Priebus on the whole business of when he walked out of the meeting, the way its portrayed in the media. I have no personal information is the Deputy Director came up and said, hey, that story was bad and it wasnt like he was digging for information. But when the Deputy Director called back and said you know what, we cant make a public statement, priebus didnt let it drop at that. You know what, frankly, if that were said about me that i was doing that i was colluding with russian intelligence and that, it was false, a Deputy Director of the fbi told me that, he couldnt say anything, id get on the phone and make phone calls to ask for help. Not to knock it down but to correct the record. Not just that, there is also the report in the times this weekend that the white House Counsel was calling over to the Justice Department to try to find out if there was a fisa warrant into donald trump. Thats a different topic. A lot of those type of questions thats different. With the campaign. Lets not forget the closest historical parallel is 9 11 and the commission. The 9 11 commission started with investigations in congress with congressional committees then it was determined this really had to be an independent commission. Thats a similar road. Not an exact parallel. There are no such things. Its the closest one we have. We may be getting to a position where some of the thing comes out in the open testimony next week, some things revealed in the close the testimony make it clear to all involves there will have to be an independent six, seven, eight months to do it. I nomination Alan Dershowitz to do it in a week. You could get together a Commission Commission of people with clearances or people eminently clear, in a brief period of time and get this together in a couple weeks. Nobody is going to be satisfied with a behind closed doors investigation. I dont care what happens. 50 of the country is going to be mad. In they want a commission to happen, its going to happen fast. Thank you, both. Coming up, the new republican civil war. Conservatives rising up against party boss on obamacare. Were going to talk to congressman jim jordan, going rogue. Defied leaders with his own version of a bill to repeal obamacare. Women on the march. Coast to coast action from womens day rallies. And guess who is coming to dinner, President Trump, senator cruz and their wives sitting down together tonight. I wonder if theyll talk about this. Everybody hates cruz. Lyin ted cruz. Donald, youre a sniveling coward. Wow, to be a fly on the wall. Thats ahead. You totaled your brand new car. 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And im encouraged that the president indicated theyre pushing to make changes. This morning speaker of the house paul ryan refending the gop bill saying it will pass. I have no doubt well pass this because were going to keep our promises. This is a team sport. This is a all hands on deck. You know what, we all ran on repealing, replacing obamacare. Today, two house committees started debating the health care bill. Democrats trying and failing to get the hearings adjoujouradjou. The gop bill has trouble not just with the democrats but also facing opposition from some republican lawmakers. So what is President Trumps pl plan . He may be hitting the road to shore up support, considering heading to louisville, kentucky, next week, the home state of senator rand paul who mocks the new gop bill calling it obamacarelite. Joining me, republican congressman jim jordan of ohio, cofounder of the House Freedom caucus, and today he introduced a clean bill calling for repeal of obamacare. Nice to see you, sir. Good to be with you, again, greta. Is your bill that you introduced today, is it identical to the one that was introduced is a months ago in which all the republicans in the house voted for it, all the republicans in the senate, i believe, voted for it. It went to president obamas desk. He vetoed it. Am i right on my facts . And is that what you introduced today . Youre exactly right. That is what we told the voters we were going to do. Thats the legislation we passed and put on president obamas desk. Why shouldnt we put the same thing on President Trumps desk . Thats what we introduced actually a few minutes ago. Now, i take it the speaker ryan, did he vote for that bill 15 months ago . Sure did. Sure did. Senator mcconnell . Yep. Yep. Republicans voted for it overwhelmingly. So we know that one i mean, in theory, that one should pass. The house and the senate. Since you still own the house and the senate. Maybe a few changes in 15 months. And i assume you own the white house at this point. Right. So what happened . What happened . So tell me what happened. Well, we think what happened is the bill that was introduced earlier this week, 48 hours ago, that bill says were going to repeal obamacare but were going to keep some of the obamacare taxeses in place. It says were going to repeal obamacare but were going to take the Medicaid Expansion and were going to extend it. So i dont think thats what we told the voters we were going to do. Talk about keeping our promises, thats exactly what we should do, keep our promises. Thats why we introduced this bill. Repeal obamacare. We can agree on that. Lets do that and work on a separate piece of legislation that would replace the bad policies in obamacare, put policies in place that would bring back affordable insurance. All right. Do you have a repair, a new health care bill, do you have one . Senator paul introduced one on the senate side, congressman sanford introduced one on our side, we believe if implemented would get to the goal of lowering premiums and deductibles for working class and middle class families whove seen such an increase in those areas. Can you see how American People would be rather sort of distressed if theyd gotten used to obamacare, gotten insurance on obamacare, if they find you want to repeal it and dont have something ready to go and they could be caught in the lurch sort of like the uncertainty and fear because health is so important . No. Good point, greta, but the bill we introduce, and the one we passed a year ago, gives a twoyear kind of glide path to get a market in place. And you got to remember where were at today. Right now, today, americans have fewer choices. Higher costs. Higher premiums. Higher deductibles. So never forget the context were in right now. Obamacares think what it said, obamacare said were going to put taxes, regulations, mandates on the insurance industry, drive up the cost of insurance, mandate you buy it and if you dont, you get penalized. Such a deal. Thats what were living under now. We want to bring back affordable insurance, not put more people on Government Health care, not put more people on medicaid. We want to bring back affordable insurance so working class families, middle class families, can buy the plan that fits their families needs. Thats the model we think makes sense and thats the model consistent with america. All right. All those republicans 15 months ago who voted for repeal, did they ever vote on your plan you just outlined now . Has that been voted on . No, but our plan was taken from a lot of other plans. The idea is we think theres common agreement on, expansion of Health Savings accounts, easier formation of Association Health plan, tax deductible in the individual marketplace for nose w those who dont get their insurance through an employersponsored plan. Thats the kind of plan we think will lower costs. We combine it in one piece of legislation. These are ideas republicans have championed for years. Lets pass the replacement bill, too. Why does speaker ryan not like your idea . I think theres concern amongst a lot of folks particularly some republican governors about the Medicaid Expansion, making sure it stas stays in place for longer than two years. Thats the concern amongst some members probably. Of course i think some governors that theyve heard from. In fact, one is the governor from our state whos been pretty outspoken on this. What we say is, look, lets go with the you still have that for two years, thats time for a marketplace to begin to form. And then those same people are on Government Health care now. We believe will have the ability to purchase private insurance and meet their families needs. All right. Yes no. I only have five seconds left. Is this bill going to pass . I think its got real problems right now, greta. We had our Freedom Caucus meeting last night and strong opposition amongst our members last night. Congressman, thank you. Hope youll come back. Thanks, sir. We will. Up next, we look at the democrats pa battle plan. How will they respond to the new sales pitch coming from President Trump . This is decisionmaking without the facts, without the evidence. Afraid of the facts. Afraid of the evidence. Former governor howard dean is next. Plus the two were bitter rivals but at this very moment, President Trump and senator ted cruz are having dinner at the white house with their wives. What could they be talking about . Well, we have a few ideas. Coming up. 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Today, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National committee, tom perez, huddling with House Democrats strategizing on how to defend obamacare. This is the dog that caught the car. They caught the car and now they dont know what to do with the car because they realize that their alternative facts of the last eight years, the Affordable Care act, is a job killer, are in a collision course with reality which is the Affordable Care act is a life saver. Joining me, former vermont governor and former dnc chairman howard dean. Nice to see you, sir. Thanks for having me on. Okay. Whats the strategy, to watch the republicans fight over their program . Yeah, the truth perez is actually 100 right. The alternative facts that theyve used which are basically lies are about to catch up with them because now theyre in a position to do something, they have all this rhetoric, and it turns out that obamacare, while far from perfect, is a lot better than what the republicans are proposing in terms of coverage. The people who are going to get hurt the most by this are the people who voted for donald trump. All right. Do you think that i have heard today that obamacare could not survive. That the price is going up so high its going cto collapse. Priemiums are going up for some under obamacare because Health Care Costs continue to be out of control because Neither Party has done anything about them for 30 years. It isnt that some Insurance Companies pulled out of some markets, no competition, so people are stuck with whats laid out in front of them . That is true, but it was worse before obamacare. Because there were Insurance Companies pulling out of markets before obamacare. Look, i am not defending obamacare. Its not perfect. I will defend the idea of insuring 30 million more americans whose insurance will be taken away if the republicans pass this nonsense crack pot right wing theory which has nothing to do with how you really deliver health care. You say crack pot. Do you think paul ryan is a paul ryan knows nothing about health care. He says hes been doing it for 20 years. Hes not been doing it for 20 years. Hes the free market ideologue who doesnt understand how the market works. The reason Health Care Costs are going up are not because of all the things they list. Its for one reason alone. If you keep paying a lot of money to do stuff, theyre going to do as much stuff as they possibly can. The key to this system is to go on a capitated basis. Thats the key. The rest of is it all we can fight about. Until you do that, youre not going to control Health Care Costs. The best you can do is make sure as many people as possible get Health Care Costs get health care access. Thats not on the republicans radar screen. They civsimply dont give a dam. Theyre afraid the American People are going do let them have it in 2018. All right. You support obamacare . I i mean, dont love it, but you support it . Yes. Does it have problems . We. What would you do to fix it . Get rid of the individual mandate. How do we pay for it . There is no payment for getting rid of the individual mandate. What is the individual mandate says if you have to buy insurance whether you like it or not. It makes everybody mad. It was a political mistake. It doesnt really affect the Insurance Market as much as all the gurus in academia think it does because we had this system for kids under 18. All our kids have been insured under 18 for the last 25 years because we expanded medicaid. We didnt have an individual mandate. 1 of the people chose not to get insurance. Thats so are you saying the mandate in terms of the funding part of obamacare was minuscule . Insignificant in terms of funding . The individual mandate. The employer mandate is a different the individual mandate made no difference and all it does was make people mad, it was a mistake politically. Look, if i could design any health care i wanted, i could go back to the public option, id let people who are dissatisfied with the Insurance Markets or only have one insurer buy into medicaid. Medicare. Its a really wellrun system. Its better run that most Insurance Companies. It gives good service. Whats the matter with medicare . Why cant we buy into that . If we want health insurance. Every american should be able to do that. Wheres this headed . Where do you see this all headed . Like everything else, who knows with donald trump in the white house. I think these guy rs are in trouble because if they pass something, its likely to take people off their insurance and its the very people that elected donald trump. If they dont pass anything, they hook like idiots. And of course, 15 months ago they had this repeal that they all voted for. All the republicans in the house, in the senate and president obama vetoed it and that was a repeal, not a repair. Only onehalf of this. This is what happens when you play political games. No honesty in what the republicans were doing. They werent serious about collaborating with anybody. You say that i always hear i see it in both parties that they both play political games. They do. Its true. They both play political games but i think the republicans are simply dishonest in their propagan propaganda. They have said things that are not true for eight years in opposing this and the problem is its now about to catch up with them because theyre in charge. 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Whoa, talk about chilly. The relationship between President Trump and former president obama is, well, chilly at best. Nbc learning they have not spoken since former president obama got on this helicopter minutes of President Trumps inauguration. In a source close to the former president telling nbc that president obama rolled his eyes when he heard about President Trumps wiretapping claim. The wall street journal reporting, the former president , was, quote, livid after hearing about it. Quite a turn for a relationship that started early, seemed to start on a positive note in the days after the election. We are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future including counsel. I dont think he is ideological. I think ultimately hes pragmatic in that way. Do i have concerns . Absolutely. Of course ive got concerns. You know, he and i differ on a whole bunch of issues. Ive now gotten to know president obama. I really like him. I really like him as a person. We get along. I dont know if hell admit this, but he likes me. John johnson is a White House Correspondent for the washington post. Jay newton small is a contributor for time matt vis political director for the boston globe. Well, what do you think . Do they like each other . I think its becoming very difficult for them to like each other. The president according to those around him, is convinced the former president is out to get him. What was the tip off to that or the hint . Well im kidding. Which one . Just, jay . I mean, the bromance, if there really was much of a broman bromance, i think is definitely over but i also think they were saying everything they had to say to do a peaceful transfer of power to sort of say its all right, the country is going to survive, its going to be great. I dont think they were ever really going to be besties here. I dont know that that was likely considering all the antipathy that went into the relationship before that. And even right afterwards, i mean, obama did not waste a lot of time to begin his criticism of trump after leaving office. But matt, the president president obama has been quiet, pretty quiet, since he left office. Reasonably so prident trump, obviously, he says that he really likes president obama. I dot know exactly whats going on now between the two of them. I think its one of the more intriguing relationships in washington, or matches, you know, theyre so different. No drama obama, and sort of all drama with trump. Say hes livid, just not publicly. I dont know what livid with president obama looks like. We never saw that in him. And even with, you know, president now President Trump sort of calling of his birth certificate, i mean, he dealt with that mostly in good humor. There wasnt flashes of anger with that. Now a similar thing where hes being accused of something he says he didnt do. I dont think ive seen President Trump livid, either. Not publicly, although you hear more about that privately, you know, that trump will not, you know, hesitate to sort of throw out some expletives and sort of scream at people. You didnt hear that as much, i guess, with president obama. Its International Womens day and in that spirit, some organizers of the womens march on washington launched a new event today, a day without a woman, encouraging women to skip work or skill and hit the streets in rallies around the country and around the world. House democratic congresswomen were among those walking out. We dont want the world to know a day without a woman, but we want people to understand what that day would be like and it would not be a day that takes us to our fullest aspirations for the future. President donald trump tweeting today, i have tremendous respect for women and many reoles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy. Jenna, what do you think about today . Well, the white house seemed to be very careful with this day. The president put out a couple tweets this morning saying that he respects women. I noticed that that caused a lot of people to tweet back at him about some of the things that he has said about women over time. The white house put out a very lengthy statement gushing about women and the role that they played. During the briefing today, sean spicer was careful not to criticize protesters to say anything about teachers who were skipping out on classes. And to just kind of keep this positive tone and to not go negative as the white house sometimes does on protests. Were looking at live pictures of some rallies for women. Jay, i wouldnt have i guess thats new york city. Jay, i would not have said that in a tweet if i were the president , i respect women because that did invite a response back and they have the rather tortured history. I would have just tweeted, you know, some of the accomplishments of women. And its certainly been his achilles heel, the biggest problems of his campaign, the biggest sort of vulnerabilitiei were when he went after women, talked about Carly Fiorinas face, went after hillary for playing the womens card. Or mrs. Cruz which well get to in a second. Exactly, talking about heidi cruzs appearances, threatening to spill the beans on heidi cruz, whatever that meant, which he never explained. Certainly its always been his achilles heel and hes always very tentative, i think, to criticize women which he should be because its a huge, really big problem for him and it is very striking to note that the opposition has taken the form very much so of women against donald trump. You see now 13,000 women running for office inspired by his presidency to take action. And all of these ongoing protests. You know, matt, its likefli some of the way he responds on these twaeets. Yeah. You see that over time, you see that, too, with their statement of the holocaust remembrance day. They were cautious about how they worded the statement but the tweet invited different reresponses. Quick break. Coming up, i know you want to be a fly on the wall for this. Trump, senator ted cruz and their wives having dinner at the white house. Remember what candidate trump said about mrs. Cruz . Awkward. Thats next. Medicine. I talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. 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That pledge wases not a blanket commitle if you go and slander and attack heidi that im going to nonetheless come like a puppy dog. His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to oswald being, you know, shot. Yes, my dad killed jfk, he is secretly elvis and jimmy hoff is buried in his backyard. What was out of line politically and historically was for ted cruz to basically snub the candidate for president. He is a tough, smart guy. Hes got an amazing future. So i want to congratulate ted. This election was a powerful mandate for change. President trump has now sat down at the white house with several primary rivals including senators Lindsey Graham and marco rubio and governors john kasich and chris christie. Back with me, the panel, jenna, jay and matt. Matt, you know, looking at that tape, you know, and then, like, to say lyin ted and cruz firing back. Yeah. Tonight. Then they had the big praise for each other. Then theyre having dinner tonight with their wives. I know. Trump is sohas sort of insulted about every member of ted cruzs family you can imagine. His kids were told are going to be there, ted cruzs, maybe to ease the tension among the parents in the room. I mean, this is cruz fired back. I mean, cruz said mean, nasty things back. Yeah. I mean, this is sort of you see this recently with trump where hes met with marco rubio, Lindsey Graham, several of his rivals who he called losers during the campaign. Little marco. Lyin ted. Rick perry got glasses to look smarter. Yeah. Now hes secretary of energy no and he wanted to destroy the energy department. And he needs these people now. I mean, they are in power if they are together to stop some of what trump wants to do as president. Which is actually, jenna, which is very smart. I mean, you know, you think about it, what trump is doing is really smart. Hes taking his what would be his political enemies if not regular enemies and hes probably going to turn them into allies. This is something hes done his whole career. Back during business deals. He was proud of he would get in these horrible fights with fellow Real Estate Developers then end up bringing them on and doing rk with them. Smart to do that. Thats smart to do that. Exactly. I mean these are members of his party. Just going back through lists of examples, ben carson who he compared to child molesters, i mean, is now in his cabinet. Someone that he trusts. Someone that he talks to. So i mean, this is the way he works. He says that he can go after someone and then embrace them and work with them. All right. Jay, you have the worst question, why do people laugh when he does that . Laugh when donald trump when trump insults people. Because its the whole point is the reality tv show. Right . Its meant to be entertaining. Thats why people dont take it too seriously, either, right . If he was really being vicious, people wouldnt actually condone that. Because hes sort of saying it in a funny, entertaining way, its sort of okay, we can all laugh, sort of move on. I dont even know what to make of most of this stuff. Anyway, heres good news bad news situation for President Trump. A new Suffolk University poll finds for the first time the president s favorability is higher than former secretary of state hillary clintons. 45 for trump. 35 for secretary clinton. But here is the not so good news for the new president. President trumps midfebruary Approval Rating was 40 . Now that was lower than any of his predecessors had at the same paint point in their presidency dating back to president eisenhower. Let me go back to you, jay. Good numbers or bad numbers for the president . Well, theres both, but generally not so great. I mean, i think what you see what you dont see in the numbers you quoted there is the fact that hes got a really high Approval Rating amongst republicans and thats the good news for him. In the sense hes i think over 80 , 80 amongst registered republicans. Thats where he needs to be with his base. I think if im right, my memory said hes up 14 since july on those numbers in that same poll and secretary clinton who hasnt been doing anything, shes gone down seven points not even being in the public eye. The problem, though, is that secretary clinton is no longer in public life at all. Shes going down. How can your Approval Rating go down . You know, when youre at least not even out there doing anything. I think the Approval Rating ticking up for him is a good sign. He had a good half a week last week. Tuesday educanight was a good n for him. Maybe youre seeing a little bit of that in the numbers. He is still fairly low and as jay is pointing out, i mean, the republicans, you know, hes f r faring well among republicans but has yet to win over broad swaths of the electorate. It certainly is going in the right direction. The poll numbers are improving for him. I think this poll was a reminder that while the president is very unpopular, everyones unpopular. Pretty much all lawmakers on the hill, parties, a lot of americans, they just they dont like politicians. His are going up. But his are i mean, they say theyre all unpopular, at least i think from his perspective, he thinks like, at least mine are going in the right direction, congress is so low, it cant go down. Right. Hes a little bit ahead of congress in most of the polls ive seen. His seem to be ticking up. I was out in iowa last month talk with voters there about why his Approval Rating is so low in iowa. A lot of people were saying that when they went to the polling booth, it wasnt that they were voting for the person they really, really liked, they were voting against hillary clinton. They were picking the lesser of two evils. So these werent always enthusiastic votes going in. I think its important for him to remember that. Panel, thank you. 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The levinson family, theyve waited long enough. Too long. Ten years is way too long. And iran needs to come clean. We dont forget our fellow americans. We all need to help on this one. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow night 6 00 p. M. Eastern. If you cant watch live, set your dvr. If you have something to say about, go to twitter and do greta, well, say what you want about me. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts rite now. Tapped out. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Tonight as we meet, Donald Trumps unfounded claim that he was wiretapped at trump tower by president obama flips around like a fish out of water. Republicans in the congress refuse to pick it up off the floor and put it out of its misery or throw it back where it came from. And since friday, President Trump has offered zero ee